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Cooking Range. No. 2,710. I Patented July 8, 1842.

W.BEEBE. NEW-YORK.

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WM. BEEBE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COOKING-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 2,710,dated 3111378, 1842.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM Bennie, of

the city, county, and State of New York,

manufacturer, have invented and made and applied to use certain new and useful improvements in the construction and arrangement of cooking stoves, which being intended to fit into fireplaces of the common construction I designate collectively as the fireplace cooking-stove, for which improvements I seek Letters Patent of the United States, and that the said improvements and the method of constructing, fixing, and using the same are fully and substantially set forth and shown in the following description and in the drawings annexed to and making part of this specification, wherein Figure 1 is a general perspective elevation of a stove in place. Fig. 2 is a plan of the parts at the line a a Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the interior with the front plate removed, and Fig. 4: is asimilar endwise section of the fiues. Fig. 5 is a plan on the line from a to a, Fig. l.

The smaller figures are consecutively referred to hereafter and the same letters or members as marks of reference apply to the corresponding parts in all the figures.

A is the hearth. B B, the chimney jambs and lintel of brick and stone or brick faced with iron plates, the latter probably preferable.

G, are the splayed reveals in common use in fire places, but may be either brick or metal, or square or circular as taste or convenience may dictate.

Z9, is the fire grate of any convenient form, with or without soapstone or fire brick lining on the inclosing metal.

(Z, is a feeding door to the grate with air holes in the upper part to be closed by a perforated slide plate a, which thus serves asone means to increase the intensity of the fire when the air holes are shut or decrease it when they are open.

a, is the general front plate.

f, is the top plate with openings g, g, to admit the usual culinary utensils.

IL, is a horizontal flue plate under the top plate f, and covering the ovens 2', 2', on each side the fire grate.

is, k are the oven doors.

Between the plate It and the plate f, two flanches are cast on one of the plates, or are so fixed as to act as guide pieces Z, Z, serving to direct the fire heat over the oven tops and under the topplate and cooking utensils through theupper part of the metal smoke flue m, into the chimney. as shown by the full arrows, 1, 1, see Fig.2, and when only so used the damper or guide valve a, covering' that part of the smoke flue m that is within the stove is to be shut by the handle. 0, and the the guide valves 0, ,0, are to be opened by the handles p, p, as shown bythe dotted lines in Fig. 2, where these valves are shown as pieces of metal set on edge with a center pivot and the handles [2 19, attached toward one end; when it is desired to heat the ovens i z, the valves, 0, 0, are to be closed and the valve n to be opened and the valves 23, t, which may be either sliding or hinged valves of sheet or cast iron and moved by handles '0, o in any convenient manner, are to be open over the descending fiues g, g, opposite the ends of the fire grate at the side of each oven, these fiues g, g, are to be made as square sheet iron pipes that lead into the lower part of the smoke flue m, through the horizontal fiues 1, a", which are formed by ribs or fianches on the horizontal foundation plate 1", Figs. 3 and 5 beneath the ovens and heat travels in the direction of the arrows,2 see Figs. 2, 3, 4L and 5, the bottoms a, of the ovens are fitted into dovetailed slides, each bottom shuts in the space below the ovenscovering the space between the ribs or fianches on the foundation plate r, the fiues thus formed beneath the ovens ending in the lower part of that portion of the smoke flue m, which is within the stove and the bottoms a, can be withdrawn to clean the bottom fiues r, r, and replaced for use. The division .9 made by fixing a metal plate with one end toward the grate b, and the other end toward the lower part of the flue m, between the spaces 3, s separates the two ovens, and when needful to do so the main current of heat of the fire may be directed to heat up one oven by closing the valve n, and either one of the dampers or valves 6, t.

In the upper part of the fire place a metal plate to, and large valve :0 with a handle 3 form a register valve to increase the fire by closing the valve :20, or by opening it allow the access of air to the chimney, which will lessen the fire and at the same time carry off into the chimney any steam or vapor from the cooking in progress below, and serve to ventilate the room or apartment if too warm.

The filling pieces y, W, 'f' shown in the detached Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are merely added to show a means of filling up by the pieces y when the splaying of the stove and of a brick fire place may not happen to agree and of filling in behind the ends of the front when the fire place may not be quite deep enough for the stove as shown by the filling pieces y, y at one corner of Fig; 2.

I do not claim to have invented any one of the parts employed in this stove, taken 7 separately therefrom as all have been more or less used for similar purposes in different ways but What I do claim as new and of my own invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent'is i The combination of the valves 0 0, with the valves t, t, and fines g, g, and r for the purpose of conducting the heat over and under the ovens i, 1', either to both ovens or to one oven separately substantially as their mode of operation is herein described and set forth, as producing a cooking stove that can easily be set in a common fire place.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the city of New York this fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty-two in the presence of the witnesses subscribing hereto.

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Witnesses:

JOHN W. CHAMBERS, I W. TERRELL. 

